Quotes about earthquake
earthquakes three judgment
The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale. Charles Francis Richter
earthquakes vibrations facts
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.
earthquakes drs plot
[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.
earthquakes names justice
The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.
earthquakes energy introducing
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
earthquakes scientist building
Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads. Bill Maher
earthquakes people news
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it. Biz Stone
earthquakes people support
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. Bill Gates
earthquakes planets unfinished
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet. Charles Kuralt
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The reverberations at first will be subterranean, but they will be of earthquake proportions. Reed Hundt
earthquake global india needs network rest surely
India surely needs to network with the rest of the global earthquake community. It needs to re-think on all old issues. Kapil Sibal
earthquake heard known lifetime
I'm 81. and never in my lifetime have I known of, read of, heard of an earthquake of that instensity before,
earthquakes rubbish england
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event. Douglas William Jerrold
earthquake far motion near scientists tunnel
In an earthquake, the motion is at surface, ... Back in '92 there was a 5.6 or 5.7 earthquake not far from Yucca, and there were scientists in a tunnel near the epicenter and they didn't even know an earthquake happened.
earthquake orleans people truly
An earthquake here would truly devastate us in that same way that people in New Orleans are being devastated.
earthquake job material report source today tremendous using
A tremendous job was done after the 1906 earthquake in making the observations of everything that really occurred. We are still using that report today as a fundamental source of material about what earthquakes do, and how to respond.
earthquake eruption mount nature seen terrible thus
I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be. Paul Watson
earthquake shoes
Well, if the earthquake happens, I've got my steel-toed shoes and some rope, and we'll get down a mountain. Stevie Nicks
earthquake
The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane. Christine Gregoire
earthquakes sun wonder
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth. Gilbert K. Chesterton
earthquake inside time
It's the first time we've been inside the earthquake machine.
earthquake man riding salesman smile smiling start
He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory. Arthur Miller
earthquakes would-be stores
The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store. George Carlin
earthquakes fire light
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. Frederick Douglass
earthquake francisco move san
San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there? John Breaux
earthquake fires francisco san untold
San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
earthquake
They're not over. For a shallow-depth earthquake like this they go on, sometimes for a year.
earthquake major time
A major earthquake is no time for on-the-job training. Jim Talent
earthquake lead taken
This is an earthquake which has taken us back 50 years and will lead to an upheaval. Silvan Shalom
earthquake hard middle
This is an earthquake in the Middle East. It's hard to see any negotiations now between anybody.
earthquake felt huge number
There weren't a huge number of reports. On our website, typically after a felt earthquake we would have hundreds.
earthquake major
There'll be no major earthquake in Lebanon. There'll be only one element: the presidency,
earthquake expect large occur parts series
This is a series of quakes like those that occur in many other parts of the world. We don't expect to have a large earthquake or a devastating earthquake from this.